Qurratulain Hyder, one of Urdu literature's grandest writers, passed away on Monday night after prolonged illness. Unfortunately, the ne...

PATRICK FRATER writes in Variety : Warner Bros. on Tuesday unveiled its first India production, the action comedy "Made in China,"...

The Godfather , as is with so many others, remains one of my favourite movies. I have watched it many times, the first time on Doordarshan i...

Pankaj Mishra on one of India's vanishing cultures: Perhaps this dwindling of middle-class culture was inevitable, part of the price of...

Siddhartha Deb on India's soft power of literature . Read the intro of his piece; the history described there should not be forgotten: T...

James Kelman recalls his early days as a writer in The Guardian : The lack of working time was a continual source of stress, as it still is....

When acclaimed filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman, died on July 30th, some remarkable obituaries were written in his memory. I love reading well-writ...

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has emerged, for all the wrong reasons, as the poster boy for the Mumbai bomb blasts. Scores of others, the non-B...

Michael Ondaatje on the influence of film on his work: Everyone in our time is influenced by film, and TV, and iPods. I think that it influ...

Harsh Mandar in The Hindustan Times : It was a devastating fury that raged through the young boy’s heart. It died down almost as quickly as ...

Some thoughts on Muslims and global terror. Not mine but of others. But how well they echo those of mine and of many others: From Prof Amita...

It seems that Indian novelists (in this case all NRIs) are turning their attention to the issue of communalism in India, among other themes....

Nayan Chanda , the author of Bound Together , argues in this Tehelka interview that the story of globalization has come full circle for Ind...

Nayan Chanda, the author of Bound Together , reflectively says in this Tehelka interview: At one point, I asked myself, what would have bee...

Intrigued by the poster? Here 's the dope. Wes Anderson's road movie The Darjeeling Limited is about three brothers on a quest in I...

The meteoric rise of India and China—two great, geographically and historically connected nations—in the last two decades or so has rekindle...

King Khan is here , there and everywher e, especially now when his next release Chak De India is ready to hit the theaters in August. I am...

...it gets rescued! That is true at least sometimes. Don't believe me? Here's an example. When mainstream publishers rejected his no...

Weekend • July 14, 2007 Zafar Anjum RECENTLY, Outlook , one of India's top news weeklies, did a cover story on how South India has stole...

After Margaret Atwood's magic pen and book launches with author videos, here's a new trick of the trade: Over the next few weeks - ...